Pennsylvania Groundhog Declares Early Spring ‘A Certainty’

Groundhog Club co-handler Al Dereume holds Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, during the 134th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., on Feb. 2, 2020. Barry Reeger/AP Photo

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa.—Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog on Feb. 2 declared: “Spring will be early, it’s a certainty.”

At sunrise on Groundhog Day, members of Punxsutawney Phil’s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed the cuddly oracle’s prediction—his 134th, according to the Pennsylvania Tourism Office.